Reborn in the Millennium: Building a Fortune from Fishing

Chapter 20 Casting the Net
This kind of Angji is the yellow catfish, which is not even as long as a finger. It is very noisy and specializes in eating earthworms.

Like crucian carp, yellow croaker will only mature in winter. If you want to fish in the wild, you have to choose cloudy days or at night, or you can fish under the shade of trees, because yellow croaker hates light.

At this time, the lotus leaf grass cave began to work, Erhu and Hanwaer took turns catching fish, and they were not small, at least two or three taels.

"Do carp also eat earthworms?" Erhu looked at the little boy in front of him blankly.

"Eat." The silly kid said one word concisely and then added.

"Very little."

Curling his lips, Erhu threw the little crutch back. This thing was useless, and Qin Dahe was not going to raise such a useless fish.

It was not until after four o'clock in the afternoon that he started to catch a big crucian carp on the purslane side.

The small river shrimps and ground tigers took turns to make trouble in his nest. He really couldn't stand it anymore, so he decided to make a bait by himself. The earthworms were really difficult to use.

During this period, the lines of the four of them were cut by aquatic plants, and he had used up half of the more than 20 pairs of leader lines he had saved.

"It's really not easy. I just watched you catch the big fish." He said angrily.

It’s still a bit lame to use the seven-star float myself. Except for the small crucian carp that I caught at the beginning, I often can’t catch any subsequent bites.

Unlike Erhu and the others, they can keep their mouths shut, know which floats to catch and which floats to wait for, and it is easy to get the goods when the bait comes.

After that, there was no more biting, but there were still fishy bubbles in the nest, but they just wouldn’t eat the earthworms. Damn.

He ran to Hanwaer happily and asked him how to fish in this situation.
"Cast the net, cast the net, cast the net, cast the net, cast the net."

"Electricity." Erhu couldn't bear to waste time talking, so he said the next words directly.

They often encounter this situation: there are fish in the nest but they just can't catch them.

Generally they cast a net or use a battery. If it is a small wild pond, they just drain it directly. There is no need to be so particular in rural areas.

"Fuck, my brain is confused. I'll go get the hand casting net." He patted his forehead and went back to get the thing. It wasn't far away anyway.

Now no one cares about electricians and network workers, so just do the network work.

He went home excitedly to get the net, and even when Qin's father came back he just responded with a "yes".

When they returned to the fishing spot, the three of them had packed up their things.

Since casting the net will definitely disturb the nests, Qin Dahe will not be able to fish. He just needs to catch fish in all four nests. After everyone divides the fish, they have to go home.

He first cast a net in his own nest. It was a little crooked, but it still covered the fish.

When he slowly pulled it up, it turned out to be a big grass carp. Damn, no wonder it doesn't eat earthworms, it eats bait.

"Lucky! This grass carp weighs at least four pounds."

He happily tied the fish's gills with grass roots and decided not to sell the fish tomorrow. He would just take it back to the silly kid later.

When he got to Tiedan'er, he insisted on casting his own net.

"Your technique is not that good. You cast the net crookedly at such a close distance." Tiedan snatched the net away with disgust and cast a big round net for himself.

"Not bad, a big crucian carp and a few small miscellaneous fish. It's strange today, I didn't see any small whitebait."

The other two followed suit, but now the nest is basically full of small crucian carp or small bream, and it is not time to catch big crucian carp yet.

"Give the grass carp to Hanwaer. Erhu, you and Tiedan can share the big crucian carp. I'll take the rest of the small fish back."

"It doesn't matter. Let's go and see if the pond has been drained?" Erhu said excitedly.

There was anticipation on everyone's face. Draining the pond, catching fish is much more fun than fishing.

Several people carried their equipment and went to Xiaotang. Without even putting their things down, they went straight to the back of his house to take a look.

"Fuck, I thought I could catch fish today, but the water in the pond is so deep." Qin Dahe said disappointedly.

"It should be ready tomorrow morning. We'll come then."

The water level in the pond had only dropped half a meter, so draining it completely would take at least until tomorrow morning. Seeing this, everyone had to take their own fish. The buckets they had brought today were all taken home, so they could just put the fish directly in the buckets.

"Come over tomorrow morning."

"I know, I know." The silly kid was very happy holding the fish.

The big crucian carp stew is delicious, but there is no meat. It is better to have more grass carp meat.

He was short of meat, so he went back and asked his grandmother to cook some, which would last him for two days.

After they left, Qin Dahe refilled the bucket that Qin's father brought back with water, and then put all the crucian carp seeds he had caught today into it, at least sixty in total.

"Dad, how much did the fish sell for this morning?"

"1500, about that. The city's purchase price is higher than the retail price here. It's a special code. We'll go and have another one in a few days."

In the past, when I sold so many fish, they were all sold at the town’s vegetable market, and the prices were quite different.

"It saves on road tolls. Hiring a tractor costs dozens of dollars, and that's for a one-way trip."

"When you get married and buy a big tricycle, I'll go collect some corn and bean cakes. They'll be useful for your fish farming."

"You can buy it now. It's just over 7,000 yuan. It's not like you don't have money." He didn't believe that his family was broke.

Although our family only has six or seven acres of land, we grow both cotton and rapeseed, so we can still make several thousand yuan a year.

My father uses electric fishing and fishing nets to catch loaches, eels and river shrimps. In winter, he also uses ground hooks to catch yellow croaker. Although these miscellaneous tasks are troublesome, he can make at least 20,000 yuan a year.

Father Qin touched his chin. The family had money. When the eldest son got married, there was a betrothal gift of 18,000 yuan that had not been spent yet, and the mother also left a lot of things, but he didn't know what the situation would be like next year.

Forget it, I'd better discuss it with Lan'er in the evening. My youngest son is unreliable.

"By the way, have you bought the pole yet?"

"I bought it. It's a good pole, tough and elastic. They also gave me a few toys as a gift." Qin's father said with a smile.

That lure rod is obviously a high-end product and is definitely worth the price.

"What toy?"

"Frogs, redfish, and the like, all soft plastic, were given directly to me."

"Oh, that's a lure. I'm going to use it for snakehead fishing tomorrow."

He was thinking about making his own lure tomorrow. He might just cut some bamboo and use it. Now that it's cold, it's hard to get live frogs.

"Are we going to take care of that small pond tomorrow?" Father Qin frowned. If the pond is dry tomorrow, will he have time to go fishing for snakehead fish?

"It's very quick to catch snakehead fish. The pond looks small, but the water is only 1.5 meters deep. My small diesel engine at home may not be able to finish pumping it out in the morning. I'll go try it first."

There must be a lot of black carp in the outer river and several wild ponds in the village. Take some time in the morning to go fishing and try. You will definitely catch some.

"Old Five will be here tomorrow too, and he'll help buy some quicklime. You'll have to be there, and he'll take the time to teach you."

"Oh, then I'll wait two days before going to catch snakehead fish." Qin Dahe sighed.

There is not much time left to catch snakehead fish. It will be too cold soon and we won’t be able to catch them.

It is September now, and black carp has a strong desire to eat in order to store nutrients for the winter.

Once the weather gets cold, we have to wait until spring when the snakehead fish are drying their backs before we can catch them.

In the evening they had sea bass and eggplant and potatoes, neither of which was spicy, so Qin Dahe found them rather bland.

"Mom, please add some chili to the fish next time. It's fishy and not as delicious as mandarin fish."

"Go away, how much is a pound of mandarin fish?"

Seeing my mother looking at him with a bad expression, he could only lower his head and eat. Damn it, he has no human rights at home.

(End of this chapter)